- gobbledygook
- also gobbledegook noun Etymology: irregular from gobble, noun Date: 1944 wordy and generally unintelligible jargon
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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Gobbledygook — or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo, gobbledeegook [ [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gobbledeegook gobbledeegook] at urbandictionary.com] or other forms [ [http://uktsupport.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=10342… … Wikipedia
gobbledygook — also gobbledegook, the overinvolved, pompous talk of officialdom [Klein], 1944, Amer.Eng., first used by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick, D. Texas, (1895 1954), a grandson of the original MAVERICK (Cf. maverick) and chairman of U.S. Smaller War Plants… … Etymology dictionary
gobbledygook — ☆ gobbledygook [gäb′əl dē gook΄, gäb′əldəgook; gäb′əl dēgo͞ok΄, gäb′əl dəgo͞ok΄ ] n. 〚first used in current sense by Maury Maverick (1895 1954), U.S. Representative: ? echoic of turkey cries〛 Slang talk or writing that is wordy, pompous, etc. and … Universalium
gobbledygook — *nonsense, twaddle, drivel, bunk, balderdash, poppycock, trash, rot, bull … New Dictionary of Synonyms
gobbledygook — [n] jargon balderdash*, baloney*, bosh, bull*, bunk*, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey*, rigmarole, rubbish*; concepts 275,276 … New thesaurus
gobbledygook — ☆ gobbledygook [gäb′əl dē gook΄, gäb′əldəgook; gäb′əl dēgo͞ok΄, gäb′əl dəgo͞ok΄ ] n. [first used in current sense by Maury Maverick (1895 1954), U.S. Representative: ? echoic of turkey cries] Slang talk or writing that is wordy, pompous, etc. and … English World dictionary
gobbledygook — [“gabldiguk] 1. n. nonsense; officialese or government gibberish. □ I can’t understand all this gobbledygook. □ They must have a full time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook. 2. n. any mess, especially of food. □ Dinner was just gobbledygook … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
gobbledygook — gobbledegook gobbledegook, gobbledygook gobbledygook . The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
gobbledygook — [[t]gɒ̱b(ə)ldiguːk[/t]] also gobbledegook N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If you describe a speech or piece of writing as gobbledygook, you are criticizing it for seeming like nonsense and being very technical or complicated. [INFORMAL] When he asked… … English dictionary
gobbledygook — (= gobbledegook), noun, informal a letter full of legal gobbledygook Syn: gibberish, claptrap, nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, blather, garbage; informal mumbo jumbo, drivel, tripe, hogwash, baloney, bilge, bull, bunk, guff … Thesaurus of popular words
gobbledygook — gobbledegook UK / US or gobbledygook UK [ˈɡɒb(ə)ldɪˌɡuːk] / US [ˈɡɑb(ə)ldɪˌɡuk] noun [uncountable] informal 1) very complicated or technical language that you cannot understand 2) nonsense … English dictionary
